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Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

While we certainly share these concerns, we do remain relatively optimistic about one aspect of higher education: learning to write. From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. an academic discipline), social worlds (e.g.,

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Innovating at Scale

Inside Higher Ed

Go to most campuses and a conventional, unimaginative, standardized approach to education is the norm: A college education consists of 60 or 120 credit hours, a 15 week-long semester, distribution requirements, a department-based major, and 3 or 5 credit hour lecture, seminar, and laboratory courses. Sure, there are exceptions.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Level Up Higher Education Assessments with ChatGPT

Faculty Focus

Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” We cannot escape the tremendous impact that advancements in technology are having, and will continue to have on what we consider most important in education. Will we allow it?

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Asian universities compete as global educators

The PIE News

Definitely a very attractive point for Asian destinations Josephine Phinith, ICEF Rob Turner, international development and marketing manager at International College of Liberal arts (ICLA), stressed that sharing co-curricular activities is mutually beneficial. To aid this, getting a visa is becoming increasingly easy.

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Gen Ed: Its Past, Present and Possible Future

Inside Higher Ed

The allure of the novel, the newfangled, the groundbreaking and the state-of-the-art can also lead us down a primrose path. Columbia’s core is anything but perfect: it remains much too Eurocentric and fails to engage sufficiently with the social sciences or the pressing issues of the present. Nostalgia can be damaging.